Feelings on the Tip of the Tongue:

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Feelings on the Tip of the Tongue

• Taste, Emotion, and the Organization of Behavior

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Trivia Tidbits

• I am a(n) ___________________
• Top three terms of endearment
• Causes of anorexia

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Objectives

• Share my research interests
• Pitch topical integration

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Evolution Eating as an adaptive problem
Overview

• Emotion Taste as marker

• Behavior Taste as systems organizer

• Eating in context Global implications

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Evolution says

• Eat
• Eat good stuff
• Dont eat bad stuff

• The omnivores dilemma

• Mouth as gate, taste as gatekeeper

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Elaborations of Taste
Darwin (1972/1965) The laughter of the gods is
described by Homer as the exuberance of their
celestial joy after their daily banquet
Disgust is a sensation rather more distinct in
its nature, and refers to something revolting,
primarily in relation to the sense of taste and
secondarily to anything which causes a similar
feeling (p. 196).
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Paul Rozin (1996) Towards a psychology of
food and eating From motivation to module to
model to marker, morality, meaning, and metaphor
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Trivia Tidbit Time

• Terms of endearment related to eating?

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Taste Metaphor

• That was so sweet of you!
• Chris has a saccharine personality.
• The incident left a bad taste in my mouth.
• Pat was a bitter person.

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Taste as Emotion Marker
Does taste predict emotionality?
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Meet Your Genes

• Touch paper briefly to tip of tongue. Any taste?
• If not, put paper on the tongue for several
  seconds. Any taste?
• Supertasters, tasters, non-tasters

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Taster Status Predicts

• Less
• Sweet, fat preference
• Vegetable intake
• Dental caries
• Body fat
• Smoking
• Alcohol drinking
• Family alcoholism
• Cardiovascular disease

• More
• Intense sweetness
• Apprehensiveness
• Depression

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Curiouser and Curiouser

• 25 genes for bitter receptors
• expression depends on experience

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We are not aloneOccidental Low- and
High-Saccharin Consuming Rats
HiS rat
LoS rat
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Preference for Alcohol-Paired Flavors
Dess, ONeill, Chapman (2006)
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Cocaine Self-Administration
HiS rats
LoS rats
TRAINING DAYS
Carroll, Morgan, Lynch, Campbell, Dess (2002)
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Back to the original question -- Do LoS and
HiS differ in emotionality?
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BOO!!! Acoustic Startle, or Jumpiness
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Dess et al. (2000)
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Taste as Systems Organizer

• Spatiotemporal organization

• Social organization

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Eating on the Run

• Deprivation-induced hyperactivity
• Activity anorexia

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Scarce food
Diet 1
Diet 2
Diet 3
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Trivia Tidbit Time

• Causes of anorexia

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Meal Patterning
LoS rats initiate more meals at night
LoS
Nighttime Meals
HiS
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It seems to me that our three most basic
needs, for food and security and love, are so
mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot
straightly think of one without the others. So
it happens that when I write of hunger, I am
really writing about love. - M. F. K.
Fisher, noted food writer, 1990, p. 353
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Trivia Tidbit Time

• I am a(n) ______________

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Sugar in Your Coffee?
I do not know if coffee and sugar are essential
to the happiness of Europe, but I know well that
these two products have accounted for the
unhappiness of two great regions of the world
America has been depopulated so as to have land
on which to plant them Africa has been
depopulated so as to have the people to cultivate
them. -- Bernadin de Saint Pierre (1773)
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Bitter Enemies Can We Sweeten the Deal?
SHARING PEACE BY BREAKING BREAD Today is Sept.
11. It is a day when many of us may relive the
horror and fear that descended upon this country
a year ago, reflect on the changes that the
attacks have brought and hope that all of this
can end soon. Tonight, three different faith
communities -- Milledge Avenue Baptist Church,
Congregation Children of Israel and Al-Huda
Islamic Center -- will gather together in the
spirit of unity, honoring the past and their
building friendships with the great equalizer
food.
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Teaching Eating

• Everyone eats
• Accessible, visceral
• Complicates simple to complex
• It takes a village

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Student Colleagues

• Kimberly Black
• Steve Chang
• Natassa Damaskou
• Heather Furner
• Carrie Liston
• Natalya Lvoff
• Liz Pelayo
• Joy Sebe
• Jill Arnal
• Jocelyn Richard
• Stephanie Freidburg-Strauss
• Courtney Kennel

• Evan Stiles
• Elena Busto
• Vincent Chen
• Rita Molestina
• Larissa Gibson
• Mitzi Gonzales
• Cheryl Prigodich
• Cameryn Garrett
• Jenny Alonzo
• Patricia ONeill
• Alison Williams
• Sara Hahn

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Faculty Colleagues

• Dale Chapman
• Dennis VanderWeele
• Roberta Pollock
• Tom Minor, UCLA
• Mike Fanselow, UCLA
• Ken Green, CSULB
• Stephen Kiefer, KSU
• Marilyn Carroll, U Minnesota

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And

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• and to YOU
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• and for this opportunity to share!